Up early to talk to my husband by SKYPE. Then off to another day. Today I tried a couple of my old tried and true teaching methods: a continuum exercise where you go to agree disagree or so so about different jobs. The Chinese love the word “so so”. And then we used a magic box to do mime of different jobs. You ad to take something out of the box and the group guess what the job is. Both worked quite well. It was really fun to see the students get excited about acting out these careers.
One group though got too out of control and after repeated warnings we stopped the game and went to silent writing. Sigh! No fun being the disciplinarian, but it has to happen if they are going to be unsafe. One girl got her arm hurt and was sobbing. The Chinese teacher stepped in and yelled at those kids like a drill sergeant. Wow! Hate to have that happen, but people can’t be getting hurt.
A little walking and shopping before dinner. We all found some treasures. I am not much of a shopper at home, but there are some many fabulous treasures. Pretty fun.
We also saw these kids in great homemade cardboard masks.
They were happy to pose for photos and then immediately wanted to take a look and see the digital images. Kids are kids wherever they are.
We enjoyed seeing a display that had photos of the students doing fun activities.
Here are a couple from the PE classes that I took for my dad, the Physical Education teacher.
When I told the students this was my father's job, they were excited and highly impressed. One girl said, "That is very healthy!" Then they brainstormed all of the fun things you got to do in PE. That was a hit!
Dinner brought us together trying frantically to make a reasonable plan for the Friday evening parent performance. Still no great plan. We are working on a new version of I’ve been working on the railroad, saying I’ve been working in the office, and I’ve been working helping people. We’ll see.
One of the PC users figured out how to get into FACEBOOK so there was a chance to be able to put a quick update there.
Tomorrow is another day. Quickly catching up with these posts, and then to bed? These school days roll along fast.
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